more from the depths of the booksale boxes

As I may have mentioned before, I have a bizarre fascination with Bertrice Small's romance novels. They tend to be well researched, but poorly written populated by Mary Sues (who get to bang every romantic hero stereotype of their time period, no man can resist, and every woman is insanely jealous of) and have entirely unlikable casts. Really, I read the things and want to murder everything. It's just that I see the books and have to see what insanity she comes up with. When it comes to certain situations, her imagination is Special. Very Special. How special?

( cut for spoilers of a book whose title I've blocked )

ANYWAY! The new book I found and spent last week trudging through is Private Pleasures, her first contemporary. It features a 40-something housewife who is able to find self-worth by going to sexual fantasy-land, looking 30 again, and having hot 20-somethings at her command. Any chareacter growth or self-worth not connected to young studs (for her or other female characters) doesn't exist.

As you can see, I have Opinions. Unkind Opinions. Mind you, I'm not sure how deeply I can get into them because...uhm...there isn't much depth to the book. But they are Strong.

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to spam a bit on the Bertrice Small subject...

I just looked at the other book of hers I found at the booksale (Look, if I don't have to turn over a penny for it-these were grab bags and donations and the free day-I cannot resist the trainwreck. No judging.) and it's about Skye O'Malley's son.

I hate Skye O'Malley and everyone in those books with a burning passion that totally compensates for the love I shower down elsewhere.

I now wonder if i could survive another one.

Also, Bertrice Small may have cost you the lusty sinful angels lured to humanity because the female angel could not resist motherhood.

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My coworkers have apparently devoted the week to trying to find something Halloween-y to make me jump. One just snuck up with a mask on and tried to make it look like a decapitated head on the trays on the other side of the cubicle wall.

It took me about 3 minutes to notice, and my very imaginative reaction was a head tilt to see the hair so I knew what head it belonged to, and "what are you doing?"

Tall Cynical Boy (hiding behind the wall) was saddened. The person wearing the mask apparently won the "she won't even react" bet.

RG Veda Vol 7

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because we know I live for icon memes:

Via telophase :

DIRECTIONS:

• reply to this post with the word MEME and I will pick six of your icons.
   
• make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
   
• other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
   
• this will create a never ending cycle of icon glee.

She chose:




( Answers(includes vague spoilers for Tsubasa at Vol 16. Except I'm learning it's not much for Clamp. )

Addendum to meme:  I live to blather about my icons.  Feel free to ask about 6 more.

ETA:  chosen by chomiji :

 

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Chosen byescalove :

   

 

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